Spool-holder.



C. M. WOLFE.

SPOOL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30. 1913.

1,273,971 Patented July 30, 1918.

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4 fifW A HORNE) CLINTON M. WOLFE, orjoonnon'n, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR. or NEHA 'ro cmiiatnso.

= RAMSEY, or COEBURN, VIRGINIA.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30,1918.

Application filed March 30, 1918. Serial No. 225,616.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON M. Wonrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coeburn, in the county of Wise and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spool-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in spool holders, especially adapted for use in holding spools of thread, while crocheting 0r knitting, and madeof a single piece of wire, bent and fashioned to proper shape for the purpose.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character which is comparatively inexpensive in cost of production, simple in construction, and efiicient in performing the functions for which it is intended.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts involving the one-piece holder and especially in connection with the resilient supporting bar for the spool and the means for supporting this bar.

In the accompanying drawings one complete example of the physical embodiment of the invention is illustrated constructed and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of the invention.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the spool holder with the spool supported thereon.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation view from the side opposite that of Fig. 3.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention the holder is made up of a single piece of wire, and is formed with a body or basket portion involving the use of the three curved bars 1, 2, 3, that are arranged in vertical positions and parallel with each other, and the two outside bars 1 and 2 are fashioned with a rear arch bar 4 rising above the body of the supporter, while the intermediate bar 2 merges into a center upright bar 5, the arch bar and center upright bar bein arranged in a knot 6 from which the end is bent into vertical position and pointed at its extremity to form, a pin for attachment of the device to the dress or other object. Across the front of the body of the support, a front horizontal bar 8 extends, and its juncture with the three curved guard bars 1, 2, 3, in each instance is formed as a knot 9, and the same numeral is used to indicate other joints or knots throughout the device. The body of the device is completed with the addition of the two side bars which extend horizontally from front to rear and are continuations of the curved guard bars 1 and 3 respectively. One of these side bars is of-rigid construction and embodies the single strand 10 extending its full length, while an ad ditional strand 11 extends from rear to'the axial center of the device thus strengthening and rendering more rigid this side bar. The spool bar 12 which supports the spool 13, is resilient and projects from this side bar comprising the reinforced parts described, extending across the length of the basket and is adapted to catch in the opposite side bar of the basket. This second bar is fashiened with a double'portion 14, in which wire is bent upon itself, and a double portion 15, and between these two double bars or sections, a slot 12' is provided for the spool bar to be caught in. At the front these double bar sections merge into the single strands 16 and 17 and are formed into a knot 9. An eyelet 18 is formed in the curved bar 2 through which the thread may be introduced and fed as the thread is used. V

From this description it will be evident that I have provided a supporting device that is rigid and well braced and connected,v

and provided with the resilient bar 12 and an additional resilient member is provided.

in the portion 14: of the side bar which forms a tongue for the bar 12 whose resiliency holds the spool bar in place.

In using the device it will readily be seen that the spool bar 12, because of its resiliency, may be bent in almost any 'direction from its joint 9 with the side bar 10-11, and thus, after the spool has been spool and bar are raised, and the spool m,

moved from the bar.

Claim: v u Aspool holder of a single piece of Wire comprising three curved body bars one of which is formed With an eyelet, a front bar,

the two outside bars merging into a 1 arph bar, the intermediate curved bar se cn'red to the aroh bar and 1 pin 15rojecting from the junction of these parts, said body 10 having a rigid side bar, a resilient spool supporting bar projecting therefrom, and 'a'second side bar fashioned with a slot for the spool supporting her and formed with a resilient tongue, as described. 15

testimony whereof I affix my signature. o

CLINTON M. VOLFE.

Copies of this patent may lie obtztineii for fi ve eents each, addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. A 

